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An insect isn’t the only thing that enters in the night if you leave the windows up in the OOT clubhouse, that is for sure!
A Bunkless OOT.
by coldwarrior ( 54 Comments › )Filed under OOT, Open thread at July 4th, 2012 - 9:30 pm
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We're not easily offended and don't want people to think they have to walk on eggshells around here (like at another place that shall remain nameless) but of course, there is a limit to everything.
Play nice!
Speaking of insects. I found this big fella on my tire yesterday. A walking stick. I don’t know if he was trying to eat the tire or just steal it. BTW, that’s an 18 inch tire.
The big krackez are going off right now. I’ll probably go light off a few myself.
Walking Sticks and Praying Mantis are two of the coolest insects.
@ AZfederalist:
Indeed! I know that a mantis would eat me if he could. I just don’t know about the walking sticks. When I mess with them, they curl over their rear end like a scorpion when he’s trying to sting. I don’t know if he can sting, but he wants me to think he can.
Heh. Everything is bigger in Texas.
Seriously, that is one big walking stick. Had one that hung out on our vaulted ceiling last year that was about 5″ long. His demise is unknown, but the cat is suspect.
Had a big Praying Mantis that was on the side of my truck -- went back inside to get the camera and when I got back -- it was gone.
Going to go light some fireworks for a short bit.
@ huckfunn:
but do they taste like chicken//
mawskrat wrote:
More like armadillo, but ya gotta cook ‘em jest right.
huckfunn wrote:
If they taste like Armadillo then there is no cooking them right, Armadillo tastes like rank shoe leather.
@ huckfunn:
I think that was one of those new EPA drones checking your tires are properly inflated…
brookly red wrote:
Shhhh, you’re not suppose to tell him that, he’s from Texas… He would have never figured it out on his own…
doriangrey wrote:
when the ticket comes in the mail it’s a no brainer
brookly red wrote:
they done gone modern on us.
the “BIG BLACK HUEYS” used to
fly over my house every night
mawskrat wrote:
I caught one of those “bugs” in the refrigerator the other night measuring my soda…
brookly red wrote:
Well, to everybody outside of Texas… Now I’ going to have to design a new covert probe for Texas. I wonder if Texan’s are dumb enough to fall for a push-up lizard???
doriangrey wrote:
not if it has a ponytail…
brookly red wrote:
GULP…. <—- writes quick note to self… scratch the pony-tail off the Texas push-up lizard drone…
@ doriangrey:
@ brookly red:
Or stains emanating from Cheetos and/or Mountain Dew….
mawskrat wrote:
what’s wrong with you?
there are NO black helicopters
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they are just really, really,REALLY dark green
Macker wrote:
that might pass a stink bug…
Oh man. Now I feel bad. I had to back off posting the OOT due to an unpredictable schedule.
@ Bunk X:
Prayer: The only meaningful activity for US Independence Day
I shot down a Iranian drone
tonight with a bottle rocket
damn bastids and ain’t I a great shot
I’ve been watching The Patriot and i was wondering if it’s just me or do the rest of you feel a wonderful, grateful, sense of awe and pride when the “Continental Militia” kicks the crap out of the Kings Army? When you see the old beat up American flag waving in the midst of the battle… it’s a beautiful thing. I am so thankful that I was born here. We are their descendants. We can take this country back.
For the stalkers, I’m thankful to God -- may your heads now explode.
@ AZfederalist:
That is funny -- I was still typing my response to Huck when you were posting yours -- amazing that we all find the same things interesting.
NO STINK BUGS ALLOWED.
@ Bunk X:
I was sad when I read the headline -- kinda made me depressed. Creature it habit and don’t like change. Glad to see ya here.
Dolphin wrote:
I just did my patriotic duty and lit off a few shells. Those fuses have a back blast on them that damn near melted my thumb. I’ll have a blister for a week.
When we lived in Wimberley, we had some walking sticks that were about a third longer than the guy up above and as big around as my thumb.
I@ huckfunn:
Only if they are fried and then liberal amounts of hot sauce is applied.
Night all.
@ Dolphin:
G’nite Dolphin.
@ Dolphin:
I’m not gone. I’m just shirking responsibilities until things settle a bit.
Here’s a furry friend that I found on my back deck last year. For reference, that’s a 4x4 post he’s leaning on and sitting on a 2x4 bottom rail.
huckfunn wrote:
I had one of those as a pet while in college.
doriangrey wrote:
This sounds like the voice of experience.
doriangrey wrote:
I had to turn this one loose. He outgrew his collar and was knocking over garbage cans.
I’m a Yankee Doodle Dandy
Yankee Doodle, do or die
A real live nephew of my Uncle Sam
Born on the Fourth of July
All done here. G’nite me bloogies…..
Kirly wrote:
Amen and Amen.
We can take this back. The Supreme Court betrayal by Benedict Roberts did not discourage or dispirit us (at least not me), it only made us more angry and more determined to recover the freedoms that have been taken by the growing federal monster. There are so many of us who just want to live our lives and be left alone, but the nanny-state do-gooders keep coming up with ways to be ever more intrusive (for our own good you know, or “for the children” or for those “do didn’t win life’s lottery). The time is coming when enough people will have had enough and stand up and say “screw you!”. November is our last chance to get things headed back on a sane path. After 2014 when ObamaTax kicks in, it’s going to be too late for a peaceable end to the coming tyranny.
@ huckfunn:
Looks like he was aiming to become a drivin’ stick.
AZfederalist wrote:
Yup, on one of my visits to Texas someone thought it would be funny to treat me to grilled Armadillo, it’s definitely an acquired taste.
Ok this is just plain badass…
@ doriangrey:
Very cool.
What? A picture of Reagan, with an Uzi on a velociraptor killed the thread?
fyi
Rutherford County judge won’t let Murfreesboro mosque open
A Rutherford County judge refused Monday to suspend an order that blocks a local mosque from getting a certificate of occupancy.
Chancellor Robert Corlew turned down county attorneys who wanted him to put his injunction on hold and allow the mosque to be used while they appeal the order to a higher court.
Corlew issued the injunction in mid-June after ruling that county officials did not provide sufficient public notice for a May 2010 meeting where the Islamic Center of Murfreesboro’s construction plans were approved.
AZfederalist wrote:
Kind of makes ya wonder bout some of our friends here don’t it….
@ doriangrey:
Well, if the caption had not said it was supposed to be Ronald Reagan, I’d have never guessed it. A good likeness, not.
I hope Leia survived the fireworks okay. She hates them.
Of course, given the recent fires they’ve had there, maybe nobody set any off.
Yet another in a decades-long string of missed holidays is in the books. I did have a “holiday” two weeks ago (read: day w.o. pay), but damned if I know what the hell it was. At least Mexican and canadian holidys (and some Jewish) are noted in my normal, NAFTA-approved Daily Diarys, so I know why I’m out a day’s pay when there.
But then, any pay beats no pay at all.
@ Mike C.:
Lobo, I hope you’re burning up the intrawebby thing, trying to pin down a gig that keeps you out of the sandbox. If you are eventually forced to go back to the sandbox, your current gig might just provide enough extra Oompf! to land you a gig in a slightly better part of the sandbox, like Manama, Doha, Abu Dhabi, Dubai or Muscat. At least you could get a drink.
(WaPo)
@ Guggi:
Nobody in the world seems to have a good economy. Nobody. Everything is just waiting for the shock that brings the whole thing down.
Netanyahu “gets it” more than Obama ever could, even if he wanted to.
@ MacDuff:
. . . you got dat right.
Powerful stuff (this gentile says: God Bless Israel & BiBi)
Iron Fist wrote:
If we can get the dormant American economic machine cranked up and pull the government vines from its gears, we have a chance. Romney’s career as a professional capitalist is his single most important qualification. Another four years of Obama may well render the machine a total loss.
@ MacDuff:
I agree. If we leave the reigns of government in the hands of the Socialists,we are done for. Romney is our only hope for turning this mess around. Whether he can and will deliver, I don’t know, but we can’t afford to not give him a chance.
Pussy Riot Hunger Strike: They do not want to Dance The Poot!